In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.

If you keep working you'll last longer. I'd hate to spend the rest of my life trying to outwit an 18-inch fish.

The highest art of professional management requires the literal ability to 'smell' a 'real fact' from all others.

Business is many things, the least of which is the balance sheet. It is a fluid, ever changing, living thing, sometimes building to great peaks, sometimes falling to crumbled lumps.

Management must manage!

Facts from paper are not the same as facts from people. The reliability of the people giving you the facts is as important as the facts themselves.

Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Nonperformance can always be explained away.